Decades have elapsed since Israel first occupied
Arab territories in 1967. The Jewish state seems to be reaping what
it sowed: ordinary Israeli kids join the army and become sadistic monsters,
just by complying with its rules

Jon Elmer interviews Hanan Ashrawi - "there
will be an awakening, as we are witnessing, among Israeli public opinion.
And ultimately Israel will be treated like any other state: not above
the law, and not with preferential treatment."

According to the new directives, all Palestinians
over the age of twelve who live in the seam area will be required to
obtain a "permanent resident permit" from the Civil Administration
to enable them to continue to live in the their homes

Despite government attempts to impose a news blackout,
information about more than a decade of horrific events at Facility
1391 are beginning to leak out. As a newspaper described it, Facility
1391 is "Israel's Guantanamo"

When completed,Israel's apartheid wall is expected
to be at least four times as long and in many places twice as high as
the Berlin Wall. Its impact on Palestinian economy and society is going
to be enormous. Ida Audeh conducts detailed interviews with people in
the districts affected by the completion of the first phase of the wall

Its creators have tried to sell the Geneva Accord
as some sort of breakthrough, it is nothing of the sort. The document
recycles the unworkable arrangements that Israel and the United States
tried to impose at Camp David in July 2000

It is fairly right to assume that Israel would
oppose the one-state option at any cost, because it would mean the end
of the Jewish character of the state; the PNA would oppose it because
it would end its monopoly on power; and the US would oppose it because
Israel does. Why, then, should it be an option?

Peace in Palestine through territorial partition
is a doomed fantasy and the time has come to discard it. It is time
to declare the era of partition over and commit to a moral, just and
realisable vision in which Israelis and Palestinians build a future
as partners in a single state which guarantees freedom, equality and
cultural self-determination to all its citizens

The Arab group at the UN has three times in less
than a month requested Council action to deal with ongoing Israeli aggression
in the region. In no case was the Council able to properly discharge
its essential duties or offer any meaningful help

Israel has taken an unprecedented series of measures
aimed at heightening tensions with its neighbours, Syria and Lebanon,
provoking a conflict that can be used as a pretext to launch a supposedly
defensive campaign as a cover for Prime Minister Ariel Sharons
expansionist policy

Nine Palestinians were killed, including two children
and two teenagers, and about 80 injured, leaving 2000 homeless during
the Israeli raid on Rafah refugee camp that began on Thursday night,
October 9

As the honour codes that bound Palestinian familes
unravel, Islamic Jihad has stepped up its recruitment of women. A report
on the cycle of slaughter that drove an ambitious female lawyer to become
a human bomb

The Haifa attacker was a young woman training to
become a lawyer. Why would a person who ought to have had everything
to live for choose, instead, to end her life in such a cruel and devastating
manner? As we learned about her victims, we also learned that she too
was a victim

The Israeli Cabinet voted yesterday to go ahead
with a particularly controversial section of its "security fence",
which Palestinians call Israel's Berlin Wall. The Cabinet approved a
new stretch of the fence east of the Jewish settlements of Ariel and
Kedumim deep inside the West Bank